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ROORBACH, Orville Augustus, publisher, born in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, 20 January, 1803; died in Schenectady, New York, 21 June, 1861. He was educated in Albany, opened a book-store in Charleston, South Carolina, about 1826, and was engaged in business there till 1845. During the latter part of that time he also carried on the book trade in New York city, whither he removed in 1845, and con-tinned in that business till 1855, when he began to publish and edit the "Booksellers' Medium." He compiled and arranged the " Bibliotheca Americana," a catalogue of American publications, including reprints and original works from 1820 till 1861 (4 vols., New York, 1852-'61).
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